hegira

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My own Hegira is a two-block schlep to a neighborhood bagel place, so I’m not the ideal audience for this heady Kerouacian stuff.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2021

The great Hegira, led by Charles E. Hughes, was at the cordial invitation of the Bench and Bar of England.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has told an interviewer that they understand their stay there to be similar to the Prophet Muhammad's Hegira, or migration from Mecca to Medina.

From Time Magazine Archive

After cautious reconnoitering, Mohammed sent his band thither on the so-called Great Hegira.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each man loved his brother better than himself, and during the first years of the Hegira, when one died, the other inherited his property, to the exclusion of his natural heirs.

From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Dinet, Etienne